Critics of Boris Johnson are jealous of his reputation, backbench Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg has claimed.

The Conservative Celebration investigation into allegedly Islamophobic feedback through Boris Johnson has been labelled a “display trial” through Mr Rees-Mogg, in a piece of writing for The Day by day Telegraph.

The ardent Brexiteer and chair of the influential Ecu Analysis Workforce claims the investigation may well be an try to undermine the previous overseas secretary and any long run management bid.

Mr Rees-Mogg writes: “Envy is without doubt one of the seven fatal sins… Boris Johnson, as a result of his many successes, reputation with electorate and air of mystery, draws greater than his justifiable share of this unpleasant vice.”

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“When Margaret Thatcher was once chief, she and Michael Heseltine have been rarely soulmates, however she should not have allowed private contention to take the warmth off the Labour Celebration, whose personal deep inner divisions are buried in different news now, nor would she have countenanced any try to have a display trial,” the North East Somerset MP writes.

“May or not it’s that there’s a anxiety as soon as and almost certainly long run management contender is changing into too common and must be stopped?”